If you are an academic finding the writing difficult to do over time, you are not alone. It is one thing to master the skill of academic writing and publishing. It is quite another to keep writing over many years. Writing With Purpose, Peace & Passion: A Guide for Sustaining Your Academic Writing, by Margarita Huerta, is for anyone wanting help with sustaining an academic writing practice.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know’
While college faculty go about their jobs—doing what is seen (teaching and publishing) and unseen (class prep, grading, and researching)—little time is given to the uncomfortable acknowledgment that those acts have legal ramifications. Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know, by Kent Kauffman, addresses topics that are vital for those in academia.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Qualitative Research Design and Methods: An Introduction’
Qualitative Research Design and Methods: An Introduction, by Kathleen DeMarrais, Kathryn Roulston, and Janie Copple, situates qualitative research within the history of the field and integrates this history within discussions of specific research designs. The text discusses traditional as well as emerging qualitative research approaches, providing a theoretically grounded approach to designing and implementing qualitative research studies.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Teaching Online Classes’
With the recent boom in online education causing a rapid change in mainstream learning methodologies, Teaching Online Classes: Exercises and Techniques, by Elina Kallas, Adult Educator and Researcher, Estonia, examines how to teach adults in synchronous virtual classes. Elina Kallas details essential advice for improving learner engagement in these unique remote environments. A crucial resource for lecturers, professors and adult educators adapting to evolving learning environments.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘How to Use Digital Learning With Confidence and Creativity’
How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity, edited by Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin, Donna Lanclos and Tom Farrelly, Munster Technological University, Ireland, is an accessible and practical guide to key topics in the field of digital learning. It offers advice and insights not just about core digital learning platforms and tools but about a range of ethical, pedagogical, ideological, and strategic challenges arising at the intersection of digital technology and teaching practice.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Nutrition for a Changing World’
Written and illustrated in the style of Scientific American magazine, Nutrition for a Changing World by Jamie Pope and Steven Nizielski engages students like no other nutrition textbook. Chapters focus on real stories—about real people and real science—bringing context and relevance to the core science. Infographics serve as “science storyboards,” guiding students step by step through essential processes and concepts. Coverage of timely topics—gluten-free diets, the diabetes epidemic, global nutrition—exemplify the book’s contemporary approach to nutrition science.